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“PLOS does not consider Impact Factor to be a reliable or useful metric to assess the performance of individual articles”

gneugneugneu ouais nique ta mère Bill Gates
Rodrigue Govan

Response to response to response to reviews to submission

  1. We ask that a manuscript source file is provided at Revision. Please upload your manuscript file as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .tex. If you are providing a .tex file, please upload it under the item type LaTeX Source File and leave your .pdf version as the item type Manuscript.

Si on a bien compris, la version clean revisée en format .tex dans la catégorie “Manuscript” (alors que sur le site, ça disait pas ça lol)
Où mettre la version tracked du coup? jpp
Rodrigue Govan

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We did not use any proprietary or copyrighted maps such as Google Maps or Mapquest. Particularly, the blue color on figures 1 and 3 are just a background color we set. Regarding the region border shape of the study location, we added the source on each figure using it.
Rodrigue Govan

  1. Thank you for providing the links in the Data Availability statement. The second and third link reaches a 404 page, Please amend this to a new link or provide further details to locate the data. We suggest that you provide this information now, though we will not hold up the peer review process if you are unable.

First link: https://meteo.data.gouv.fr/
Second link: https://ncl.popgis.spc.int/ (it works for us…???)
Third link: https://geoportail.oeil.nc/ (not working anymore) rectified with https://oeil.nc/geoportail
Fourth link: https://georep.nc/
Rodrigue Govan

  1. Thank you for stating “Soil type data can be requested by writing to the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (cartotheque@ird.fr). Leptospirosis data can be requested by writing to the Health and Social Affairs Departement of New Caledonia (dass@gouv.nc)”. Since your data is not available for proprietary reasons, please explain via email why the data is not available. Please also include the contact information for the third party organization that should be contacted should other researchers want to request access to this data and please include the full citation of where the data can be found. We also request that you verify with us via email that any researcher will be able to obtain the data set in the same manner that the you have obtained it.
    If you feel you are unwilling or unable to adhere to this policy, please explain your reasons by return email and your exemption request will be escalated to the editor for approval. Your exemption request will be handled independently and will not hold up the peer review process, but will need to be resolved should your manuscript be accepted for publication. One of the Editorial team will be in touch if they require more information.

nique-ta-mere@plus-jamais.plos
Rodrigue Govan

  1. Please amend your detailed Financial Disclosure statement. This is published with the article. It must therefore be completed in full sentences and contain the exact wording you wish to be published.
    1. State the initials, alongside each funding source, of each author to receive each grant. For example: “This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (####### to AM; ###### to CJ) and the National Science Foundation (###### to AM).”

    “This work was supported by the French National Research Agency ANR-SPIraL (ANR-19-CE35-0006 to CG and RT).”
    Rodrigue Govan

    1. State what role the funders took in the study. If the funders had no role in your study, please state: “The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.”

    “The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.”
    Rodrigue Govan

    1. If any authors received a salary from any of your funders, please state which authors and which funders… If you did not receive any funding for this study, please simply state: “The authors received no specific funding for this work.”

    “RG received additional funding for their PhD scholarship from the ANR-SPIraL program.”
    Rodrigue Govan